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Bad money decisions are coming home to roost for the US and Japan

South China Morning Post - Business Trade press Published 23rd September 2026 China

What the source reported

Source-reported

The US Treasury market is in trouble, oil prices have been surging and the yen might slide again. Whatever Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent might have said, the United States government isn’t big enough to be “the house” that always wins when it comes to fixing global markets. Last week, the 10-year US Treasury yield briefly reached 5.04 per cent, the highest level since 2007, right before the global financial crisis. Bessent had tripled a Treasury buy-back operation on September 10 to US$6...

Publication
South China Morning Post - Business · Business News
Published
23rd September 2026
Original report
scmp.com

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What ProcIntel recorded

ProcIntel-derived
Category
Supply Chain & Logistics
Geography
China
Organisations
None identified
Collected
23rd September 2026 · 14:20

Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.

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Significance 2 · Moderate
Confidence 2 · Low

Initial Significance Moderate (26.0/100). Strongest contributor: Geographic Breadth (10.0/10 points). Limiting factor: Likely Event Severity (3.0/30 points). Initial Confidence Low (21.5/100, data sufficiency: Partial). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (12.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Corroboration (2.5/25 points).

Strongest contributor
Geographic Breadth
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Likely Event Severity